For six months, Wise County supervisors have struggled with how to cut more than $5 million from the upcoming annual county budget. Reductions were needed following several years of budgeted spending that exceeded sustainable income, fueled by temporary COVID pandemic emergency funds and dipping into diminishing county reserve funds. County officials have whacked, whittled and surgically sliced their way to a tentative fiscal 2026-27 budget that…
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